Plagiarism Today

JULY 3, 2024

Medical company wins right to challenge DMCA exemption, UK blocks 7K domains and Starbucks sues NYC marijuana business. The post 3 Count: Medical Challenge appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 1, 2024

Nintendo is doing everything in its power to stop the public from playing pirated games on the Switch console. The Japanese gaming company won several lawsuits in recent history, shutting down websites that distributed pirated ROMs. Most notable, perhaps, was the criminal referral that resulted in the demise of the infamous hacking group Team-Xecuter.

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Michael Geist

JUNE 29, 2024

The government’s choice for chief of the Canadian Human Rights Commission has been mired in controversy this week given his failure to disclose a record of posts and appearances that call into question the ability for Jewish or Zionist Canadians to get a fair, impartial hearing at the Commission. Birju Dattani, who formerly was known as Mujahid Dattani, is now the subject of an independent investigation by the Ministry of Justice as the calls for his resignation or replacement from stakeholder g

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The IPKat

JUNE 30, 2024

There is no doubt that photographs can be protected by copyright [ IPKat here , here and here ]. This Kat has found a recent ruling issued by the Paris Court of Appeal concerning a copyright infringement dispute involving photographs. This judgment provides an opportunity to examine the concept of originality as applied to photographs, and also to understand what may constitute an infringement of moral rights.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 1, 2024

News nonprofit sues OpeAI, Internet Archive takes fight to Second Circuit and film producer faces liability over counterfeit DVDs. The post 3 Count: Counterfeit DVDs appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 4, 2024

Starting last year, various rightsholders began filing lawsuits against companies that develop AI models. The list of complainants includes record labels, book authors, visual artists, and newspapers, including the New York Times. These rightsholders all object to the presumed use of their work to train AI models without proper compensation. The New York Times lawsuit targets OpenAI and Microsoft and is steadily moving forward.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 1, 2024

On February 28, 2024, following the European Commission's four 2023 proposals, the European Parliament adopted a legislative resolution on the amended proposal to create a Unitary Supplementary Protection Certificate ("USPC") and recast the existing Supplementary Protection Certificate ("SPC") regulations for medicinal products.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 2, 2024

Plagiarism comes to the Big Apple as lawyer-turned-detective Elsbeth solves a case with two separate plagiarism plot lines. The post Plagiarism in Pop Culture: Elsbeth appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 29, 2024

In 2023, broadcaster Canal+ went to court in France with the goal of obtaining an order requiring local ISPs to block over 100 pirate sports streaming sites. The French court complied with the request; ISPs including Orange, SFR, OutreMer Télécom, Free, and Bouygues Télécom, were ordered to implement technical measures to prevent access to Footybite.co, Streamcheck.link, SportBay.sx, TVFutbol.info, and Catchystream.com, among dozens of others.

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 1, 2024

The quick and short answer to “How can I protect a book title?” is that you can’t. But, when it comes to the law trademarks, everything’s complicated with a lot of variables, and there are ways to work around it. A book title cannot technically be protected under trademark law, unless it is the title for a series of multiple books. An author can register the same phrase or words for other products or services that they may provide.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2024

On Monday, June 24, 2024, the three U.S. major record labels, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, filed copyright infringement claims against two artificial-intelligence (AI) music start-ups, Suno and Udio. These AI music companies allow users to generate musical recordings based on text prompts, including by genre and topic.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 3, 2024

Fireworks displays are a common theme of Fourth of July celebrations. But how has copyright, trademark and patent law changed the field? The post Copyright, Trademark and Patent in Fireworks appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 5, 2024

With dozens of millions of monthly visits, Animeflix positioned itself as one of the most popular anime piracy portals. The site also has an active Discord community of around 35k members, who actively participate in discussions, art competitions, even a chess tournament. Target: Animeflix While rightsholders take no offense at these side-projects, the site’s core business was streaming pirated videos.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 1, 2024

A couple of years ago, Florida and Texas passed “social media censorship” laws. The laws were not subtle–the bill titles literally told the world that the legislatures were censoring social media. From a drafting standpoint, the laws were a mess. They packed dozens of undertheorized policy ideas into poorly drafted omnibus bills that never represented a serious attempt at policy-making.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2024

Nike and Japanese fashion brand A Bathing Ape (BAPE) have settled a trademark infringement lawsuit over BAPE’s alleged on-again, off-again infringement of some of Nike’s most iconic sneaker designs. The settlement requires BAPE to discontinue some of its sneakers and redesign others.

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Cogency Global

JULY 3, 2024

What this is : Germany has a strong, dynamic economy; a stable political environment; is home to tens of thousands of businesses and is the second-largest exporter in the world. With its international prominence, Germany is an appealing choice for foreign investors eyeing European expansion. What this means : Setting up a company in Germany requires the understanding of several requirements and restrictions.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 5, 2024

When today’s home video gaming market took its first tentative baby steps thanks to more affordable hardware in the early 1980s, the details of Sony’s lawsuit against Datel would’ve been dismissed as outrageous. This was a time of experimentation; one that thrived on the energy of pushing unimaginably incapable hardware by today’s standards, to perform in unexpected ways that often exceeded manufacturers’ expectations.

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Olartemoure Blog

JULY 5, 2024

With the advent of generative artificial intelligence (GAI), the risk of plagiarism seems to be present in many fields, including the legal one. HOW DOES GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WORK? Tools such as ChatGPT can produce text, video and images, but not out of nowhere. They are trained with massive databases of content, which is often copyrighted.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to no longer give deference to government agency interpretations could lead to challenges against U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rules.

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IP Law 360

JULY 2, 2024

The Connecticut Supreme Court ordered a "limited" new trial Tuesday in a trade secrets case that pit Dur-A-Flex Inc. against numerous companies tied to research chemist Samet Dy, its former employee, finding error in the lower court's rulings on issues including damages and the enforceability of Dy's noncompete agreement.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 2, 2024

With more than half a billion site visits in just three months, pirate streaming site FMovies is seen as a major threat by Hollywood. The pirate site rivals legal streaming platforms such as Disney+ in web traffic and has become the poster child for rejuvenated site blocking proposals in the U.S. Congress. Pressure Mounts To illustrate the brazenness of the site, lawmakers in Congress got a demo of the site from MPA’s Senior Executive Vice President, Karyn Temple, late last year.

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Olartemoure Blog

JULY 4, 2024

The rise of e-commerce has brought to The US Customs and Border Protection some significant challenges nowadays. The CBP oversees the entry of dangerous materials, counterfeit or even smuggling products to the country. Their duty is to enhance the nation’s economic prosperity by enabling legitimate trade. There is no doubt of the long lists of benefits that online purchase brings to the economy of countries.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 3, 2024

The institution rate for post-grant petitions in FY 2024 through the end of April 2024 (the period from Oct. 1, 2023 through April 30, 2024) stands at 66% (427 instituted, 230 denied). This rate remains flat compared to the previous two fiscal years (67% in FY 2023 and 66% in FY 2022), but remains significantly increased from the two fiscal years prior to that (58% in FY 2021 and 56% in FY 2020).

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IP Close Up

JULY 2, 2024

Taylor Swift has presented herself as an advocate of fellow recording artists, even going so far as to include shares of Spotify for them in Continue reading

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TorrentFreak

JULY 1, 2024

Next month will mark the 13th anniversary of the first site blocking injunction in the UK. Action by the major Hollywood studios against Usenet indexing site Newzbin led to ISP BT being ordered to block the service. That was just the beginning and in most cases today, major UK ISPs including BT, Virgin Media, and Sky, are supportive of site blocking requests and happily carry them out, despite increasing complexity.

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SpicyIP

JULY 1, 2024

In light of the recent settlement between Youtuber Dhruv Rathee and Dabur in a trademark and copyright infringement dispute, SpicyIP intern Aarav Gupta writes on how use of a mark in commentaries and critiques should not amount to infringement and highlights the larger public interest in such commentaries/ critiques. Aarav is a fourth-year law student at National Law University, Delhi.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 1, 2024

On June 28, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a Notice requesting public comments on the current state of the common law experimental use exception to patent infringement and whether Congress should consider codifying the experimental use exception through legislative action. This follows from a string of other recent Notices where the USPTO is seeking public input on other areas of patent law, including a recent Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Terminal.

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IP Law 360

JULY 5, 2024

As law firms increasingly rely on generative artificial intelligence tools to produce legal text, attorneys should be on guard for the overuse of cohesive devices in initial drafts, and consider a few editing pointers to clean up AI’s repetitive and choppy outputs, says Ivy Grey at WordRake.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 3, 2024

In 2022, it was public knowledge that the MPA had its eye on video hosting and streaming service DoodStream. When the MPA’s top lawyer called the site out a year later, DoodStream’s operators may have underestimated how significant that was. What followed was a copyright infringement lawsuit , filed at the Delhi High Court in India, DoodStream’s home turf.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 2, 2024

Yesterday, US Inventor, Inc. (USI) filed an amicus brief in Island Intellectual Property LLC v. TD Ameritrade, Inc., urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) to reconsider its use of Rule 36 when affirming decisions. The underlying district court decision was issued in November 2022 by Judge Rodney Gilstrap, who adopted Magistrate Judge Roy Payne’s September 2022 Report and Recommendation and granted TD Ameritrade’s (TD) Motion for Summary Judgment on the patent infringeme

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 29, 2024

INTRODUCTION The Delhi High Court’s recent interim order in the case of Jaikishan Kakubhai Saraf aka Jackie Shroff v. The Peppy Store & Ors., took an interesting take concerning the personality vis-à-vis publicity rights of individuals. The plaintiff sought protection for several aspects of his identity, like his name, voice, photograph, image, likeness, distinctive dialogue delivery style, gestures, and mannerisms.

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IP Law 360

JULY 5, 2024

When the high court limited the scope of a federal obstruction statute used to charge hundreds of rioters who stormed the Capitol, the justices did not vote along ideological lines. In a year marked by 6-3 splits, what accounts for the departure? Here are some moments from oral arguments that may have swayed the justices.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 2, 2024

When news began to break in early March, indicating that Spain’s most powerful football league had been authorized by a local court to track down people who simply viewed pirate streams, the story made for puzzling reading. Claims in the media, that this related to pirate IPTV subscribers, spread like wildfire. That benefited LaLiga’s deterrent messaging campaign but lacked any basis in truth.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 1, 2024

Nearly a year has passed since the Administrative Committee’s Decision on June 26, 2023, amending the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) to move the London Section of the Central Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) of First Instance to Milan and to reallocate its competences between the Seat (Paris) and the two Sections of the Central Division (Munich and Milan), thereby aligning the UPCA with the consequences of Brexit.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 1, 2024

Trademark law continues to be the cornerstone of brand identity. One concept that introduces a unique set of challenges in trademark law is “tacking.” Tacking is the ability of a trademark owner to modify their mark without forfeiting its priority status. This article explores the significance of tacking as a vital strategy that allows businesses…Trademark law continues to be the cornerstone of brand identity.

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